Project Manager

Responsibilities

You will support the Senior Project Manager in delivering the Credit Risk programme by coordinating plans, milestones, and cross-functional activities. You will also manage risks, dependencies, and governance while maintaining accurate delivery information in Jira to ensure project success.

Requirements

The role requires demonstrable experience in managing complex projects from initiation to implementation, including strong proficiency in Jira. Candidates must possess a solid technical understanding of credit risk systems and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Skills

• Project management
• Credit risk
• Jira
• Stakeholder management
• Governance
• Risk management
• Delivery planning
• Data analysis
• Process improvement
• Technical documentation
• Strategic planning
• Change control
• Reporting
• Decision management
• Budgeting

Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Competitive pension
• Annual performance-related bonus
• Training and development
• Salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance
• Wellhub
• Paid volunteering

About this role

As a Project Manager within Credit Risk, you’ll report to the Senior Project
Manager and support the delivery of a programme improving the systems, data and
processes used to assess and manage credit risk. You’ll help establish and
maintain clear delivery plans, governance and controls, bringing together
colleagues from Credit Risk, technology, operations, data and third-party
partners to deliver agreed outcomes safely and effectively.

You’ll provide a single, reliable view of scope, milestones, dependencies,
risks, actions and decisions, using Jira and other planning tools to keep
delivery visible and controlled. By anticipating issues, enabling timely
decisions and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, you’ll help
deliver resilient change that supports good customer outcomes and meets
business, risk and regulatory expectations.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your
best.

This is an 18-month secondment opportunity.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding
relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues
together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to
home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and
to feel connected.

For this role, you'll be based at your nearest regional office or hub. We value
time spent together to connect with colleagues for collaboration so there will
be a regular requirement to attend our Swindon site approximately once per
quarter. If you are based at an office location, you'll be expected to meet our
hybrid working requirement of at least two days a week, or 40% of your working
time if part-time, in the office. If your application is successful, your hiring
manager will provide further details on how this works.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change,
as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this
recruitment process.
 
If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a
temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an
application.

RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll be doing

You'll support the Senior Project Manager in the successful delivery of the
Credit Risk programme, helping to translate strategic objectives into clear
plans, milestones and deliverables. Working closely with both business and
technical teams, you'll coordinate activity across the programme, manage risks,
issues and dependencies, and ensure delivery information is accurately
maintained in Jira.

You'll play a key role in supporting project and programme governance, preparing
concise updates, decision papers and management information for forums and
stakeholders. Building strong relationships across the organisation, you'll work
with colleagues at all levels to resolve blockers, drive progress and keep
delivery on track.

Using your understanding of credit risk systems, processes and controls, you'll
help shape safe and effective change, challenging assumptions where appropriate
and ensuring both business and technical impacts are fully understood and
considered throughout delivery.

About you

For this role, we are looking for the following qualities:

* Demonstrable experience of supporting complex projects or programmes from
initiation through to implementation, coordinating scope, plans, milestones,
budgets, risks, dependencies and outcomes.
* Strong practical knowledge of Jira, including maintaining backlogs, plans,
actions, dependencies and delivery reporting
* Proven ability to build integrated delivery plans, identify critical paths
and manage competing priorities across multiple teams
* Experience of influencing and communicating with stakeholders, translating
complex information into clear updates, decisions and actions
* Good technical understanding of credit risk systems, data flows and
processes, with the ability to connect technology change to business and
customer impacts
* Experience of applying effective project governance, including risk and issue
management, change control, status reporting and decision management

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we
work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to
display, in every role:

* Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their
feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs,
so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind

* Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think –
we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives
to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand

* Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status
quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal
development

* Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are
decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer
outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours
resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

QUALIFICATIONS

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

* 25 days holiday, pro rata

* Private medical insurance

* A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for
retirement

* Access to an annual performance-related bonus

* Training and development to help you progress your career

* A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

* Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the
event of your death

* Wellhub – access to...

About Nationwide

Financial Services · 10,001+ employees · headquartered in Swindon, Wilts · founded 1846